A new species of Ichthyosaurus from the Lower Jurassic of West Dorset, England, U.K.

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• Submitted May 13, 2013; revisions received January 28, 2014; accepted February 8, 2014.
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• Handling editor: Robin O’Keefe. Citation for this article: Lomax, D. R., and J. A. Massare. 2015. A newspecies of Ichthyosaurus from the Lower Jurassic of west Dorset, England. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI:10.1080/02724634.2014.903260.
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